Optimism

mountaingirl sara said:
I may be unpopular for this, but I am for paddling...under the right circumstances. At Village Christian School I was the recipient of a few paddles, it was an effective tool for sure! :eek:
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Well we have a couple of things in common besides riding MTB’s, I went to VCS, and administration was able to refine there paddleing technique to use for future offenders! I would say sorry but It worked. :)
 
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Optimism is having it so good in life that you have the time/energy to come on a forum and argue about Sh!t that is in the grand scheme of things, background noise in life. I am thankful that I am included in this group that has a life good enough that I can go looking for stuff to be angry about.

Deep breaths and lots of good will to strangers. I was headed back from tahoe last week from riding with my buddies. As I was unloading my bike from my buddies car at SFO airport to fly home, my best friend hands me a $10 and says, you have to give this to a person in need on your journey home. I guess it's a jewish thing...

At any rate, I did just that, and added another $10 dollars and gave it to the super nice homeless guy that I see living in old Town Tustin. I bet he doesn't care what sort of bike he rides and how its' powered. Matter of fact, I should talk to him and see if he wants/needs a bike, and if he does, I should get one for him.
 
mountaingirl sara said:
You must not have kids?? I was always amazed at what my kids told me went on in jr high school....:confused:
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I do have kids, two boys, 10 and 6. So, yeah they are still clueless. And, we intend on keeping them clueless for as long as their friends allow them to be. That's how they will learn about this stuff, through friends.

BACK TO OPTIMISM!!!

Having two young boys and I love every freaking moment. Even when my 10 yr old takes 15 minutes to finally start brushing his teeth after asking him several times. Even when my 6 yr old wants to wrestle at 9 pm right before bed. Even when my 10 yr old acts like picking up the dog poop is going to kill him. I love it now and will hate it when its gone.
 
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It's been hard to get rides in lately. Through the week just won't happen. My wife just started her masters program, while working full time, so my weekend ride times revolve around how the teething 11 monther is doing and how caught up on assignments she is. Leaves a pretty short window, but I'm extremely happy to get those 12 to 15 miles a week in.... At least I can do it year round here..
 
Derkderkall said:
It's been hard to get rides in lately. Through the week just won't happen. My wife just started her masters program, while working full time, so my weekend ride times revolve around how the teething 11 monther is doing and how caught up on assignments she is. Leaves a pretty short window, but I'm extremely happy to get those 12 to 15 miles a week in.... At least I can do it year round here..
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I know the feeling...and enjoy it while it lasts, because you'll blink and wonder how the kid got to college that fast. o_O
 
Redman said:
I do have kids, two boys, 10 and 6. So, yeah they are still clueless. And, we intend on keeping them clueless for as long as their friends allow them to be. That's how they will learn about this stuff, through friends.

BACK TO OPTIMISM!!!

Having two young boys and I love every freaking moment. Even when my 10 yr old takes 15 minutes to finally start brushing his teeth after asking him several times. Even when my 6 yr old wants to wrestle at 9 pm right before bed. Even when my 10 yr old acts like picking up the dog poop is going to kill him. I love it now and will hate it when its gone.
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Time to resurrect this thread with some pretty DAMN AWESOMELY OF MOST AWESOME NEWS! The morning of his graduation from The Music Institute with HONERS in Hollyweird, my son fell asleep at the wheel on his way home on Sierra Hwy. He veered across to the other shoulder hit the dirt and then overcorrected to a roll and then sliding on the trucks side hit the mountain on the other side and fell into a 15’ ditch! A drunken angel happened to be driving by and saw his truck in the ditch and went to help, when he arrived to my son he asked if he was all right, and then told him to turn off the truck because it was leaking fluids! Dustin reached to the wheel and the keys were not in the ignition, started felling around and somehow he found them and turned the truck off. The man said I think you will be all right, I have to go now because I am drunk too and vanished into the night. Dustin with the truck nose in the ditch, and on it’s side climed upward out of the passenger side then crawled up the steep embankment full of new found adrenaline and started walking in the opposite direction of home when some peace officers came by and picked him up, gave him the test and then dropped him home at 3:30 in the morning, we woke up to a doorbell frantically ringing!
Dustin walked away with cuts and bruises, and a sore back and then graduated at 10:am that same morning from MI with honors! The drivway is empty, but I thank god so very much that his room is not! This is a good day! I hope it is a good day for you also! Peace! Red man, kiss your boys extra! The air bag never went off? Maybe that was a good thing?

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We tracked his cell phone to the ditch and is buried somewhere in the ditch, never did find it.
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He’s pretty shook! The enormity of it all did not hit him , and me until we went to the yard and saw the violence of it all, he broke down. He was sobbing that night, I did not to expect to see that much damage cause he was standing before me that night, and not somewhere else. Then we went to the ditch to look for his phone and it hit us again, me especially! My familly is blessed woth another chance!
 
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